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George William James (born October 5, 1949) [1] [2] is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books about baseball history and statistics.
Bill James (1949- ) is the best known baseball analyst in the world, and he has been a prolific author (Baseball Abstracts, Historical Abstract, Handbook and many other works).
Sep 26, 2011 · Bill James was working at a Kansas cannery when he came up with an idea that would transform baseball. The movie Moneyball tells the story of that idea and how the Oakland...
Bill James, the sabermetrics pioneer who authored the widely influential “Baseball Abstract” books in the 1980s, took to X on Tuesday to discuss the state of sports, focusing on the analytics ...
Mar 31, 2017 · Bill James, the Godfather of stats, has long since been deserving of a plaque, having helped pioneer sabermetrics and change baseball forever.
Aug 31, 2023 · It’s almost impossible to imagine the modern game of baseball without the contributions of Bill James. The longtime Lawrence resident and KU grad is a pioneer in the field of Sabermetrics, a word that James coined based on the acronym for the Society of American Baseball Research.
Bill James, whose quantitative analysis of baseball revolutionized the sport, talks with baseball writer Rob Neyer about his life, his career, and the national pastime. James, who now serves as...
Jul 14, 2003 · Ben McGrath writes about Bill James, a statistician and baseball legend hired by the Red Sox to improve the team’s fortunes using “sabermetrics.”
Jun 13, 2003 · Bill James made his mark in the 1970s and 1980s with his Baseball Abstracts. He has been tearing down preconceived notions about America’s national pastime ever since. He is currently the Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox, as well as the author of The Man from the Train.
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The Basics. Sabermetrics was first introduced to a wide public in 1982, with the first mass-market publication of the Bill James Baseball Abstract. And for my generation of sabermetricians of a certain age, this was the very first sentence about sabermetrics that we ever read:
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